Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced the company’s semi-truck won’t be revealed until November 16. According to Musk, the delay is so the company can focus resources to fixing Model 3 production bottlenecks, as well as increasing battery production for Puerto Rico and other affected areas from recent hurricanes. The semi-truck was originally set to […]

Would it surprise you to hear U.S. plug-in vehicle sales are ahead of where they were last year at this time, and they’ll finish the year at an all-time high? We’re guessing probably not. The feeling among some is progress is happening fast, by next decade a tipping point could be reached whereby conventional cars […]

GM is charging up, announcing plans to add at least 20 new EVs by 2023 and unveiling a fuel-cell truck. The announcement came today from General Motors VP of Product Development Mark Reuss. “General Motors believes in an all-electric future,” Reuss Said. “Although that future won’t happen overnight, GM is committed to driving increased usage […]

Seeking to create a mass market for EVs, Volkswagen is ramping up its investment in electric technology, planning to invest more than $24 billion in zero-emission vehicles over the next 10 to 12 years. In a statement yesterday, VW explained it expects to introduce up to 80 new electric cars by the year 2025, a […]

The U.S. rollout of the Chevy Bolt EV that began last December in California and Oregon has reached national availability status. Today Chevrolet announced the 238-mile range electric compact crossover is available either in stock or by ordering in all participating U.S. dealers. As the automaker’s entry into the sub-$40,000, over-200-mile club ahead of Tesla’s […]

The HybridCars.com monthly sales Dashboard is a collaboration of HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan-based market research firm focusing on automotive issues including the hybrid and electric vehicle market. Overall sales for August were down from a year ago although they were up from July. Clearly, sales this the year overall are down from […]

Mercedes has added yet another reveal to its big Frankfurt Motor Show schedule. Along with a new hypercar and an electric hatchback concept, the German automaker will debut the GLC F-Cell at its home show this year. The compact luxury crossover will be a plug-in electric car that’s also powered by hydrogen fuel cells and […]

Plug-in electrified vehicles are projected to begin outselling hybrids in the U.S. but it may not be as soon as some people think. As we reported in February, the total number of plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (EV) for sale in the U.S. now exceeds the total number of hybrid vehicles. Quantity of […]

It’s the only plug-in hybrid minivan on the market, but Chrysler won’t plug the plug. That is, the new Chrysler Pacifica is the only minivan with a plug-in hybrid system – or any hybrid system at all, for that matter. But Chrysler doesn’t want its advertising talking about that plug-in part. With the exception of […]

A new supercar called the Boreas Project quietly made its debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans last month. Hints of its pending arrival were given in June, when DSD Design & Motorsport released teasers of a new hypercar designed to compete with Pagani and Koenigsegg. Now that the Boreas Project has debuted, it […]